MARK 13:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.”
You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them — the shift from cosmic signs to personal persecution is the disciples' specific experience of the birth-pain period. Handed over (paradidōmi) to councils — the same word used for Jesus' betrayal (14:10, 11, 18, 21, 41). The disciples' experience mirrors Jesus' experience: handed over, tried before authorities, as witnesses. The persecution is simultaneously a suffering and a mission opportunity.
Church Fathers on Mark 13:9
The Lords shews how Jerusalem and the province of Judaea merited the infliction of such calamities, in the following words: 'But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten.'
Fitly also did He premise a recital of those things which concerned the Apostles, that in their own tribulations they might find some consolation in the community of troubles and sufferings.
Matthew adds, 'And then shall the end come.' [Matt 24:14]
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